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Автор: Elliott, Andrew B. R.
Название: Medievalism, politics and mass media
ISBN: 9781843844631
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
Классификация:

Литературоведение: Классическое, раннего, высокого и позднего средневековья до 1500 г.

Средневековая история

Исследования средств массовой информации

ISBN-10: 184384463X
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 235
Вес: 0.78 кг.
Дата издания: 16.10.2017
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 7 colour illustrations
Размер: 164 x 240 x 24
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Подзаголовок: Appropriating the middle ages in the twenty-first century
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In 2001, George Bush provoked global uproar by describing the nascent War on Terror as a Crusade. His comments, however, were welcomed by Al-Qaeda, who had long been describing Western powers in precisely the same terms, as modern Crusaders once again invading the Middle East. Ten years later in 2011, Anders Behring Breivik launched a tragic attack in Norway, killing 77 unarmed civilians, mostly teenagers. Breivik saw himself as a Templar Knight, a member of a group of knights allegedly resurrected in London in 2002 by one Lionheart. Later investigations suggested that the blogger, Lionheart, might have had links to the right-wing, anti-Muslim, English Defence League and other so-called counterjihad blogging networks decrying an Islamic invasion of Europe. Though extreme examples, these cases all share a crucial detail: the framing of current political issues in terms of recognisable medieval precedents. In the widespread use of medievalism across social- and mass-media channels, it is clear that such political medievalisms are not intended as a specific reference to a historical precedent, but as a use of the past for modern concerns. The argument of this book is that we need new ways of analysing this kind of medievalism; extending far beyond the concept of anachronism or inaccuracy, references to Crusades, Templars and Vikings affect the way we understand our world. Using theories of communication and media studies to examine popular medievalism, the author investigates what effect such medieval terminology can have on a mass-mediated audience and on the understanding of the Middle Ages in general. Andrew B.R. Elliott is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Lincoln.

Medievalism, politics and mass media, Elliott, Andrew B. R.